James Madison

1816 portrait James Madison (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

Madison was born into a prominent slave-owning planter family in Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental Congress during and after the American Revolutionary War. Dissatisfied with the weak national government established by the Articles of Confederation, he helped organize the Constitutional Convention, which produced a new constitution designed to strengthen republican government against democratic assembly. Madison's Virginia Plan was the basis for the convention's deliberations. He became one of the leaders in the movement to ratify the Constitution and joined Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing ''The Federalist Papers'', a series of pro-ratification essays that remains prominent among works of political science in American history. Madison emerged as an important leader in the House of Representatives and was a close adviser to President George Washington. During the early 1790s, Madison opposed the economic program and the accompanying centralization of power favored by Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton. Alongside Thomas Jefferson, he organized the Democratic–Republican Party in opposition to Hamilton's Federalist Party. Madison served as Jefferson's Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809, during which time Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase.

Madison was elected president in 1808. Motivated by desire to acquire land held by Britain, Spain, and Native Americans, and after diplomatic protests with a trade embargo failed to end British seizures of American shipped goods, Madison led the United States into the War of 1812. Although the war ended inconclusively, many Americans viewed it as a successful "second war of independence" against Britain. Madison was re-elected in 1812. The war convinced Madison of the necessity of a stronger federal government. He presided over the creation of the Second Bank of the United States and the enactment of the protective Tariff of 1816. By treaty or through war, Native American tribes ceded of land to the United States under Madison's presidency.

Retiring from public office at the end of his presidency in 1817, Madison returned to his plantation, Montpelier, and died there in 1836. Madison was a slave owner; he freed one slave in 1783 to prevent a slave rebellion at Montpelier, but did not free any in his will. Among historians, Madison is considered one of the most important Founding Fathers of the United States. Leading historians have generally ranked him as an above-average president, although they are critical of his endorsement of slavery and his leadership during the War of 1812. Madison's name is commemorated in many landmarks across the nation, with prominent examples including Madison Square Garden, James Madison University, the James Madison Memorial Building, and the . Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Madison, James, 1751-1836
    Published 1865
    Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co., 1865.
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    by Madison, James, 1751-1836
    Published 1840
    Washington : Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1840.
    1 online resource (3 volumes (lx, 1624, ccxlvi pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates)) : illustrations.
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    by Madison, James, 1751-1836
    Published 1900
    New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900-1910.
    1 online resource (9 volumes) : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, 6 facsimile.
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    by Madison, James, 1751-1836
    Published 1894
    Washington : Department of State, 1894-1895.
    1 online resource (vii, 739, 70 pages)
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    Published 1960
    [Richmond] : Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, [1960]
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    by Scott, James Brown, 1866-1943
    Published 1918
    New York ; London ; Toronto ; Melbourne ; Bombay : Oxford University Press, 1918.
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    by Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
    Published 1845
    Washington : J. and G.S. Gideon, 1845.
    1 online resource (125 pages)
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    by Pinkney, William, 1764-1822
    Published 1826
    Philadelphia : R.H. Small, 1826.
    1 online resource (616 pages) : portrait, fascimile.
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    Published 1901
    Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901.
    1 online resource (5 volumes) : digital files.
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    Published 1893
    Chicago : Albert, Scott, 1893.
    1 online resource (805 pages)
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    Published 1894
    Chicago : Albert, Scott & Co., 1894.
    1 online resource (2 volumes (805 pages)) : portraits.
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    Published 1852
    Hallowell [Maine] : Masters, Smith & Company, 1852.
    1 online resource (496 pages)
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    Published 1901
    [New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1901?]
    1 online resource (xvi, 488 pages) : portrait, plates, 3 facsimiles.
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    by List, Friedrich, 1789-1846
    Published 1827
    Philadelphia, S. Parker, 1827.
    40 p. 22 cm.
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    Published 1920
    New York ; London ; Toronto ; Melbourne ; Bombay : Oxford University Press, 1920.
    1 online resource (xcvii, 731 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates) : facsimiles.
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    Published 1898
    New York : H. Holt, 1898.
    1 online resource (lxxvii, 793 pages)
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    by Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
    Published 1923
    New York : London ; G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1923]
    1 online resource (lix, 586 pages)
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    Published 1865
    Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865.
    1 online resource (2 volumes (clxv, 659, vi pages)) : frontispiece (portrait)
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